Derwent London have purchased a huge office and retail complex on Tottenham Court Road, Fitzrovia, London. The 251,000 square foot freehold site was purchased for £146m. The company intend to refurbish and develop on the site and have plans to create a business improvement district (BID) and increase retail and eateries in Fitzrovia. [...]

The London Cycle Hire scheme is launched in central London on Friday 30 July. Dr Robert Davis says you have nothing to fear from cycling. It is motorised vehicles which are dangerous, not cycles. [...]

Jean Rhys became a successful, though psychologically scarred, novelist in her latter years. Many of the traumas described in her novels relate back to her days in Fitzrovia as a drama student, chorus girl, and briefly a call girl. [...]

“I used to go to the dairy in Bolsover Street where they had a cow to get the milk and paid a penny a pint. There weren’t bottles, they used to put a china bowl out and then we used to help ourselves,” says Winifred Ekpenyon in this fascinating collection of [...]

By Peter Whyatt Tatty banners hanging from lamp posts in Charlotte Street and Goodge Street, in Fitzrovia, were finally removed last week after residents requested that they be taken down. The canvas banners which had been advertising “smoke free Camden” should [...]

Murder and racketeering were as common as bombs dropping during the Blitz in Fitzrovia and Soho. Mike Pentelow reviews "An Underworld At War; Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War", by Donald Thomas. [...]

Frederick Cayley Robinson’s Acts of Mercy paintings which used to hang in the foyer of the since demolished Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia, will go on public display at the National Gallery. Local people and Fitzrovia News campaigned to save the [...]

Derwent London will announce their plans to redevelop the Saatchi & Saatchi building in Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, and put forward plans for new retail premises at ground floor level. Derwent London are also working with the Fitzrovia Partnership to create a Business Improvement District in Fitzrovia. [...]

By Linus Rees A planning application has been submitted to demolish the Middlesex Hospital Annex and former workhouse building in Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia. The site contains the last remaining example of a Georgian workhouse in London but has not been listed. The [...]

By Linus Rees After months of closure and construction works, a newly refurbished children’s play area has opened this week at Crabtree Fields, Whitfield Street in Fitzrovia. The play space features timber climbing apparatus, sawdust, swings, and a sandy beach play [...]

By Linus Rees Advice workers at the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre are concerned about the effect that the proposed housing benefit limits will have on people living in central London. Many people asking for advice are already worried about being able to pay their rent when [...]

By Linus Rees The first of several cycle hire stations arrived in Fitzrovia this morning and drew interest from residents, commuters and tourists. The first of the cycle docking stations are sited on the corner of Scala Street and Charlotte Street. The scheme is due to be [...]

By Jennifer Kavanagh Last year, British summer being what it is, I didn’t book for the one-night event, walked in, and found it quite wonderful. This year’s summer being what it is, I tried to book, and found it sold out. In fact, sitting in the little queue for [...]

By Linus Rees A cycle rickshaw reconstructed by Camden community centres and schools drew crowds of people at Sunday’s Camden Bangladesh Mela in Regent’s Park. Thousands of people gathered in the park on Sunday 4 July for a celebration of Bangladeshi culture. [...]

By Linus Rees Celebrations of British-Bangladeshi art and culture will take place in Regent’s Park and the British Museum after months of preparation by Camden’s community organisations. There will be a Bangladesh Mela in Regent’s Park on Sunday 4 July, [...]

By News Reporters A new short film criticises a business group’s plans to commercialise Fitzrovia and increase the amount of restaurants and cafes on offer. The film suggests that Fitzrovia could become a tourist and entertainment destination like Camden Town and the [...]